City Hall energy use and renewables

Caroline Russell: What proportion of City Hall energy use is from non-fossil fuel renewable sources? Could you provide this data for each financial year from 2014-15 to 2018-19 showing total energy use compared with the proportion from renewables?

The Mayor: The table below shows City Hall’s energy usage, and the sources of grid electricity for each of the last five financial years.
Coal 22.60%, Natural Gas 6.10%, Nuclear 54.90%, Renewables 16.30%, Other 0.10%
Coal 14.50%, Natural Gas 8.60%, Nuclear 64.30%, Renewables 12.30%, Other 0.30%
Coal 5.70%, Natural Gas 8.40%, Nuclear 76.90%, Renewables 8.80%, Other 0.30%
Coal 7.55%, Natural Gas 9.39%, Nuclear 71.21%, Renewables 11.66%, Other 0.19%
On average, 58 per cent of City Hall’s energy has been from non-fossil fuel sources in this period, with 9 per cent from renewable sources. From 1 April 2019, City Hall has switched to 100 per cent green energy with renewable electricity supplied by Ecotricity and green gas by Corona.

Harrow and Wealdstone Station: Footbridge

Navin Shah: There is a delay to the refurbishment of footbridge. The prime reason for the delay relates to a dispute between TfL and Network Rail re Puccino's concessions located on the bridge. Can you advise when do you expect resolution of the problem(s) and give us the new completion date?

The Mayor: Transport for London (TfL)and Network Rail (NR) have resolved the issues that had delayed the start of the refurbishment works by NR.
The coffee concession is being relocated to platform 2 at the station. Scaffolding has been erected on the footbridge and hoardings works have commenced which has partitioned the bridge and enabled the works to commence.
The footbridge will remain open throughout the work but space will be restricted for customers at certain times. The works are expected to take until the end of 2019 to complete.

Fire safety in historic buildings [1]

Andrew Dismore: What steps is London Fire Brigade taking to improve fire prevention and response across London’s historic buildings of religious and cultural value?

The Mayor: London Fire Brigade’s (LFB) fire safety inspection programme includes working with heritage and historic sites across London. A heritage co-ordinator within the Fire Safety department assists and supports heritage sites by engaging with external stakeholders, such as English Heritage and Royal Palaces, and to review their emergency plans, salvage plans, out of hours response plans and gathers relevant information for operational response considerations.
The LFB emergency response to heritage sites is practiced through borough based exercises. Recent examples include salvage exercises at the Guildhall and the Tower of London alongside the Royal Palaces salvage teams. Further exercises planned for this year include St Paul’s Cathedral and Hampton Court.
Following the fire at Notre Dame LFB are writing to all known historic buildings in London reiterating advice on fire safety in historic buildings and on the need for salvage plans. This letter will be sent by the end of May.

London Fire Brigade and ultra-high pressure lances and positive pressure ventilation equipment

Andrew Dismore: A number of fire brigades, including small county brigades, around the country use ultra-high pressure lances and positive pressure ventilation equipment, but not London Fire Brigade. London Fire Brigade training contracts do not provide a location for PPV training due to the need for carboniferous burning. will you take steps to ensure LFB has the most up to date equipment with necessary training to provide for firefighter safety and reduction in fire and water damage at fires?

The Mayor: London Fire Brigade (LFB) is aware that neither of the existing training venues provided by Babcock at Beckton and Park Royal, or the third venue planned for Croydon, are able to support carbonaceous Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV) training, fundamental to the introduction of both PPV and Ultra High Pressure Lances (UHPL) technologies. LFB is working closely with colleagues from Babcock to find a cost effective way of providing appropriate venues to support PPV and UHPL training. This research includes looking at existing venues that surround the capital, as well as exploring the collaborative use of existing training venues at neighbouring fire and rescue services.

Sprinklers in schools

Andrew Dismore: Recent research by Stephanie Peacock MP shows just 15% of schools built since 2011 have sprinklers fitted. How many schools built in London under the Priority School Building Programme and free schools programme have been fitted with sprinklers, and how many were built in total?

The Mayor: London Fire Brigade (LFB) has campaigned for sprinklers to be made mandatory in all new schools and major refurbishments for over a decade and recommends their use in each building control consultation it responds to. However, LFB does not receive details of whether a build proceeds with sprinklers included and does not collect specific data on whether a school is part of the Priority School Building Programme or free schools programme.

Sprinklers

Andrew Dismore: You stated that the London Fire Commissioner had a meeting scheduled in April with the Housing minister to discuss fitting and retrofitting of sprinklers. What was the outcome of that meeting?

The Mayor: The London Fire Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner for Fire Safety met the Housing Minister on 24 April and discussed a number of key issues including remediation work on private blocks, consultations that arose from the Hackitt review and sprinklers. They also gave examples of cases where buildings in London are not being built in accordance with the plans provided to LFB. The Government has since made an announcement on remediation for private blocks and further outcomes of the meeting will become apparent as the Government makes further announcements on these issues.

LIFE Programme and youth diversion

Sian Berry: To date, how many young people have completed the Local Intervention Fire Education (LIFE) programme that is run by the London Fire Brigade? Could you break this down by a) year, and b) the boroughs in which it was provided, and give details of plans for future provision in each area?

The Mayor: Since the Local Intervention Fire Education (LIFE) programme began in 2002, 5,498 young people have completed it. Young people from across all London’s boroughs are eligible to take part. The programme is provided at facilities in fire station sites within seven London boroughs, a breakdown is provided in the table below.
The delivery of the LIFE programme is currently being assessed as part of a wider review of LFB youth service provision to explore all options for the future and outcomes of the review are expected later in 2019.
Lambeth
Barking & Dagenham
Greenwich
Kingston
Tower Hamlets
Haringey
Brent
Total
2009
20
149
101
44
40
30
102
486
2010
71
148
83
32
113
32
114
593
2011
70
95
105
18
101
64
67
520
2012
24
106
116
32
36
45
59
418
2013
97
96
127
29
60
66
90
565
2014
105
47
81
40
35
68
65
441
2015
102
85
165
42
49
60
79
582
2016
111
70
140
56
88
65
94
624
2017
126
97
152
40
44
78
122
659
2018
135
72
157
38
16
54
138
610
Total
861
965
1227
371
582
562
930
5498

Rescue and Response Borough by Borough

Jennette Arnold: Please provide a borough by borough breakdown of referrals to Rescue and Response, including details of age, ethnicity, gender.

The Mayor: Rescue and Response Referrals by borough – September 2018 to March 2019 can be found in the attached.

Joint fire safety inspections

Andrew Dismore: How many joint inspections between London Fire Brigade and local authority housing officers of tall residential buildings with flammable cladding have been carried out in each quarter in the last two years? Please provide this data by borough

The Mayor: London Fire Brigade (LFB) requires the attendance of the Responsible Person (RP) or their representative at an inspection.This would include a representative from the local authority where the local authority is the RP for the building.
In the last two years LFB has made in excess of 1200 visits to high rise premises with suspected flammable cladding. Of these, 316 visits have been conducted at premises with confirmed flammable cladding.
Visits to premises to with confirmed flammable cladding by borough:
Borough
Visits
Borough
Visits
Barking & Dagenham
1
Hillingdon
2
Barnet
6
Hounslow
2
Bexley
0
Islington
9
Brent
23
Kensington & Chelsea
2
Bromley
1
Kingston Upon Thames
0
Camden
6
Lambeth
9
City of London
1
Lewisham
3
Croydon
14
Merton
9
Ealing
8
Newham
14
Enfield
1
Redbridge
2
Greenwich
45
Richmond Upon Thames
0
Hackney
14
Southwark
13
Hammersmith & Fulham
5
Sutton
3
Haringey
12
Tower Hamlets
65
Harrow
2
Waltham Forest
4
Havering
0
Wandsworth
14
Westminster
26

London Fire Brigade support for boroughs

Andrew Dismore: Which boroughs have requested London Fire Brigade advice on the risk posed by tall buildings with flammable cladding in the last 24 months?

The Mayor: London Fire Brigade (LFB) routinely liaises with all London boroughs on issues of fire safety proactively and reactively, through liaison with local borough commanders, fire safety teams and the fire safety helpdesk at LFB headquarters. Over the last 24 months, information will have been exchanged with every London borough through these mechanisms including issues relating to high rise premises and cladding.
A senior LFB officer attends the Local Authority Housing Director’s Fire Safety Steering Group and the Local Authority Housing Director’s Fire Safety Group meetings each month at London Councils which have had a particular focus in the last two years on issues relating to high rise residential accommodation, including cladding issues. This forum is open to all London Boroughs.

Junk food ban - KPIs

Andrew Boff: What key performance indicators, if any, are in place to measure the success/failure of the TfL junk food advertising ban?

The Mayor: TfL has committed to undertaking a thorough review of TfL’s Healthier Food and Drink Advertising policy after one year of implementation. This will be informed by any changes to the Nutrient Profiling Model following PHE’s current review, and by an independent academic evaluation led by Professor Steven Cummins and funded by the National Institute of Health Research.
This independent evaluation will be run by a team of academic researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of Cambridge, University of Bristol and Teesside University. It will include evaluating exposure to HFSS advertising, perceptions of HFSS foods and food purchasing in London. It will also look at the process and implementation of restrictions to HFSS advertising. This approach has been approved by the Ethics Board at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
We know that no single intervention will solve London’s child obesity crisis. That’s why I am taking action on a number of fronts - including introducing proposals to restrict the opening of new hot food takeaways within 400 metres of a school, introducing the Healthy Early Years and Healthy Schools programmes, publishing London Food, Sports and Health Inequalities strategies, supporting initiatives like The Daily Mile and the Veg Power campaign, and getting water fountains installed across the city.
In order to monitor and report on the implementation of the London Food Strategy in particular, we have published a series of metrics, of which TfL’s Healthier Food and Drink policy is one component. [www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/implementation_plan_2018-2023.pdf]

Licence Lite

Leonie Cooper: Could you please give me a full update on the latest position on Licence Lite?

The Mayor: Licence Lite was a 12-month pilot project from January to December 2018 which sought to explore buying clean energy across London. It was both novel and highly innovative for the UK energy market. The project will not continue past this initial pilot phase as Npower terminated early their five-year contract to help manage the scheme. My officers made the assessment that it was unlikely that we would procure another Third-Party Licenced Supply service provider without significant cost and with no guarantee that one could be found.I therefore had little choice but to end the project.
An independent evaluation of the project will be carried out to capture all learnings and successes. These will inform my future initiatives to help generate clean energy across London

Family homes (2)

Andrew Boff: Could you please provide the number of GLA-funded affordable homes with three or more bedrooms completed in each of the financial years 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19, broken down by borough?

The Mayor: Details of the number of bedrooms on schemes reporting start on site from 2013/14 to 2016-17 are not held within the GLA Open Project system. Below is a summary for homes completed in 2017-18 and 2018-19 and reported within GLA programmes.
(Please note, it is not mandatory for organisations to provide this information in GLA systems and the summary below is based on the data available at the time of writing.)
Location Borough
2017-18 completions:
			3 and more bedrooms
2018-19 completions:
			3 and more bedrooms
Barking and Dagenham
13
49
Barnet
45
28
Bexley
26
53
Brent
31
90
Bromley
6
28
Camden
89
55
Croydon
47
66
Ealing
73
93
Enfield
31
1
Greenwich
39
42
Hackney
23
19
Hammersmith and Fulham
18
19
Haringey
19
15
Harrow
16
14
Havering
15
10
Hillingdon
6
9
Hounslow
47
46
Islington
11
134
Kensington and Chelsea
16
5
Kingston upon Thames
13
-
Lambeth
41
42
Lewisham
62
100
Merton
20
16
Newham
36
155
Redbridge
3
72
Richmond upon Thames
4
-
Southwark
47
93
Sutton
-
23
Tower Hamlets
219
146
Waltham Forest
15
41
Wandsworth
1
71
Westminster
9
35
Grand Total
1,041
1,570

Family homes (1)

Andrew Boff: Could you please provide the number of GLA-funded affordable homes with three or more bedrooms started in each of the financial years 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19, broken down by borough?

The Mayor: Details of the number of bedrooms on schemes reporting start on site from 2013/14 to 2016-17 are not held within the GLA Open Project system. Below is a summary for homes started on site in 2017-18 and 2018-19 and reported within GLA programmes.
(Please note, it is not mandatory for organisations to provide this information in GLA systems. This information may be subject to change.)
Location Borough
2017-18 Starts on site:
			3 and more bedrooms
2018-19 Starts on site:
			3 and more bedrooms
Barking and Dagenham
25
80
Barnet
147
26
Bexley
45
73
Brent
8
159
Bromley
20
26
Camden
10
82
Croydon
55
104
Ealing
200
102
Enfield
58
18
Greenwich
115
82
Hackney
21
9
Hammersmith and Fulham
17
37
Haringey
40
10
Harrow
42
28
Havering
-
26
Hillingdon
28
4
Hounslow
26
78
Islington
104
150
Kensington and Chelsea
16
18
Kingston upon Thames
20
1
Lambeth
72
13
Lewisham
112
60
Merton
29
-
Newham
660
230
Redbridge
81
29
Richmond upon Thames
3
-
Southwark
207
30
Sutton
27
43
Tower Hamlets
450
314
Waltham Forest
76
35
Wandsworth
130
135
Westminster
48
3
Grand Total
2,892
2,005

London Fire Brigade equipment

Andrew Dismore: During the operation to save Notre Dame cathedral, the Brigade des sapeurs-pompiers de Paris used a robot, “colossus” and drones to aid firefighters. What assessment has London Fire Brigade made of the help a similar robot would give to operations in London?

The Mayor: London Fire Brigade (LFB) is not currently investigating the use of colossus or similar robots for firefighting. LFB has representation on both national and regional research and development forums and is not aware that colossus or any similar robots are currently being investigated at any of these forums. However, LFB will look closely at colossus over the next six months, to see whether this type of technology might be able to be used successfully to aid firefighting and improve firefighter safety in the context of London’s complex and varied built environment.
LFB keeps abreast of technological developments that could improve incident commander’s situational awareness or support firefighter safety by allowing them to extinguish fires remotely.